1978 GS1000 - Restomod

[Weasel]

Great looking bike. Excellent color. I'm not a fan of brown motorcycle seats but the craftsmanship is superb. Congrats on the moto show.

[mattfeet]

Thanks, gents. Looking forward to the show. Just have to put my Ohlins on then Ill be good to go!

[BADJACKSON]

Hey mattfeet great custom 1000!!!! I like how it's totally your bike, but you can still see the factory 1000 hiding in there!
Can we get a good pic of the tail piece? That's the main thing I want to change on my Litre, I don't like the lard ass look from mid seat back... I just haven't figured out how to slim it down without ruining the bones of the bike!

Great work on your 1000 though!

[mattfeet]

The Cincinnati Cafe Racer group hosted our 2nd annual Garage Brewed motorcycle show last weekend. Unfortunately, the show fell on the same weekend that my wife and I were moving into our new house so I didnt have any time to work on cleaning up the bike. That said, I think the bike showed pretty well! There was a lot of very positive feedback from people, especially the paint color and seat combo. Finally got my Ohlins installed as well. I cannot wait for it to warm up!

The show is held at a fairly large brewery here in Cincinnati. The first year, we had 3-4k people come through. This year, it was estimated we had around 7,500 people come through the show. It was PACKED. We've already outgrown our venue in two years!

Good photos courtesy of Bill DeVore.




Loading up for the show:




New Ohlins!


Staging for professional photos:


Waiting on the freight elevator to the show area!


Here's my bike!






Thanks!
Matt



Matt

[azr]

Congratulations, the bike looks amazing. And congrats on the new house as well.

[mattfeet]

Thank you! Im very pleased with both items!

[posplayr]

Awesome job

[mattfeet]

thank you!!!!

[salty_monk]

Bike's looking great!

[mattfeet]

and stops even better!

[mattfeet]

Made it into a copy of Cafe Racer magazine from coverage at the Garage Brewed show!

Untitled by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr

Untitled by Matt Proudfit, on Flickr

[T8erbug]

Love the color! Very good choice

[GS1150Pilot]

That CBx ...

[BasketCase]

This was a great read! Congrats on getting featured in the mag, must be pretty sweet to see your hard work recognized.

[mattfeet]

Appreciate all the kind comments. My first time back on GSR for awhile. Glad to be back.